The first artwork in the latest gallery show of Heinz Mack—catalytic cofounder of the Zero group in the late 1950s and a firebrand ever since—is a systematic explosion of color. Large in scale on a canvas measuring nearly 12 by 20 … Read More

Last Friday I got an unexpected call from the painter Susan Rothenberg. It was the early evening, and a few minutes earlier I had been speaking to a representative at her New York gallery, Sperone Westwater, which opens its eleventh solo … Read More

Painting is one of the few things in life for which youth holds no advantage. The diminutions wrought by aging—of muscle mass, stamina, hearing, mental agility (the list goes on)—are offset among painters by fearlessness, finely honed technique, and heightened … Read More

MONDAY, JUNE 29Opening: “Space and Matter” at Sperone Westwater“Space and Matter” combines new work with old art to explore ideas of “depth, relief, and object-hood,” as its press release states. The exhibition will include work by Richard Tuttle, Tom Sachs, … Read More

“I never look back,” the legendary 83-year-old British ex-pat artist Malcolm Morley said Thursday. Morley—who at different points in his distinguished career has been at the forefront of movements like Photorealism and Neo-Expressionism—was speaking to me on the afternoon of … Read More